Scientist Quotes - Page 30

• Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Average, Evil, Affliction

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• Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Assessment, Quality, Economic

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• Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Authority, Should, Scholar

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• Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Responsibility, Protect, Responsibility To Protect

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• The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

  Herbert Read

  Artist, Purpose, Fundamentals

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• I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Responsibility, Humanity, Remember

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.134, I.B.Tauris

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• I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Perception, Fields, Computer

  "Trumbull's vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.

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• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Kyoto, People

  "Fred Thompson on global warming" by Brian Romans, www.wired.com. October 18, 2007.

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• The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Money, Community, Understanding

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• To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Support, Disease, Cures

  "Has stem cell research been over-hyped?" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

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• One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

  Stella Adler

  Imagination, Acting, Way

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Jesus, Civilization, World

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• Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

  Max Planck

  Science, Ideas, Unlikely

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• The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Truth, Science

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Men, Ideas

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• Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Philosophical, Artist, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.

  Luther Burbank

  Mother, Nature, Light

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Contentment, Earth

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

  Max Planck

  Science, Imagination, Creative

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• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

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• The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination."

  Max Planck

  Creativity, Ideas, Vivid Imagination

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• I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the President, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Trying, President, Fiction

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Art, America, Humanity

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